If you have read this blog for a while, you might remember that I have a thing about cemeteries. Can't remember a thing that I read in history books, but somehow these cemeteries breathe life (so to speak) into history for me.
Yesterday we went to the Guillen Community Cemetery in Brownsville which is in an older, run down section of town.
The cemetery, however is well maintained and has somehow avoided the vandal destruction that almost every cemetery I have ever been to has suffered.
This old marker is for Rafael Morales who fought with Santa Anna and is now lying here among soldiers he fought against.
Self made man didn't want to be forgotten
These tree-like monuments were a benefit of an social organization, Woodmen of the World. Their goal was to provide life insurance to their living members and an honorable burial to their members when they died. They stopped providing these big trees in the late 1920's but there a lot of them in this cemetery so I'm thinking they had a big following here in Brownsville.. The organization still exists today as Woodman Insurance but now only issues emblems to attach to an existing marker. Of all the possibilities, I am not sure I would want one of those huge stone trees for a marker.......kind of big clumsy things.
Wonder what you had to do to warrant a cross. Katherine didn't get one.
Here's a nice understated above ground burial with one plastic rose .
No Fuss.....
Also no name
Someone added to the inscribed words for her/his Daddy.
How do you suppose that statue lost her head? It's pretty high up so I don't think vandals could have done it unless they were vandals with ladders. Sorry, bad taste joke.
This hole is very deep.......an escape route?
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